As an Activist, Robert Redford Understood the Power of Celebrity NYT | Top Stories By: Alissa Wilkinson 16 September 2025 at 23:28 His knowledge of the ways cameras and media create narratives helped him redirect those stories in service of larger causes like environmentalism. © Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesRobert Redford in “The Candidate,” from 1972.
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 NYT | Top Stories By: Brooks Barnes 17 September 2025 at 01:22 He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power. © Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesRobert Redford in 2013. With a distaste for Hollywood’s dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking, he typically demanded that his films carry cultural weight.
What We Know About the Charlie Kirk Shooting and Suspect NYT | Top Stories By: Pooja Salhotra, Yan Zhuang, Isabella Kwai, Michael Levenson, Hannah Ziegler and Sonia A. Rao 15 September 2025 at 05:05 Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth movement, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. © Kim Raff for The New York TimesThe tent in which Charlie Kirk was sitting when he was fatally shot on Wednesday while giving a speech at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says NYT | Top Stories By: Jack Healy and Orlando Mayorquín 15 September 2025 at 07:55 Gov. Spencer Cox said the suspect had been “radicalized” but did not go into specifics about the suspect’s views. © Kim Raff for The New York TimesF.B.I. officials outside the home of the suspect’s parents in Washington, Utah, on Friday.